centumviraten.

1661 W. Howell Inst. Gen. Hist. ii. iii. 392 Besides the Senate there was [at Carthage] a Council of 104 men,..which, according to the round number,..we may call the Centumvirate.

1718 E. Chandler Serm. preach’d before Lords Spiritual & Temporal 26 A Centumvirate, that had not Strength to subsist Six Months, but delivered all up to a Protector [i.e. Oliver Cromwell].

1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. xx. 101 Finding food and raiment all that term for a centumvirate of the profession.

1860 W. C. Hazlitt Hist. Venetian Republic IV. xxii. 76 The Captain-General, yielding to the reiterated appeals of the Centumvirate, advanced at a leisurely pace against Piccinino.

1876 Wesleyan-Methodist Mag. Sept. 842/2 The famous Centumvirate of the Methodist Conference.

1986 F. Spotts & T. Wieser Italy vi. 107 The so-called Group of One Hundred, a centumvirate of young, conservative Christian Democratic deputies formed in 1978.

2004 A. Bryson tr. M. I. M. Agachi in L. Klusákova We & Others 83 The centumvirate [in Cluj] was a larger council, made up of 100 men elected from the citizens of middle rank.

1696 B. Kennett Romæ Antiquæ Notitia ii. iii. xiii. 119 The Decemviri seem to have been the principal Members of the Centumvirate.

1738 E. Chambers Cycl. (ed. 2) Centumvirate, among the Romans, a court composed of one hundred magistrates, or judges.

1765 C. Smart tr. Phaedrus Fables iii. ix. 105 Th' accusers take the woman straight, And drag to the centumvirate.

1857 J. T. Abdy Hist. Sketch Civil Procedure among Romans i. 32 The four offices of the Centumvirate, the Judicium, the Arbitrium, and that of the Recuperators, were..placed under the Praetor's direction.

1886 J. Muirhead Hist. Introd. Private Law Rome i. iv. 76 Others..postpone the establishment of the centumvirate to the sixth century at soonest.

1946 Jrnl. Warburg & Courtauld Inst. 9 30 We know from Ovid himself what offices he held, namely those of head triumvir and of decemvir, an important post in the centumvirate.